RIVERSIDE: Motorcyclist badly hurt in crash (UPDATE)

Spectators look at motorcycle wreckage after a collision that hospitalized the rider and closed a one-block section of University Avenue in Riverside.

A traffic collision hospitalized a motorcycle rider and closed part of a busy Riverside street for hours.

The wreck was reported at 5:22 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, in front of a McDonald's restaurant parking lot along University Avenue just east of Eucalyptus Avenue.

Preliminary findings suggested that the eastbound motorcyclist was traveling at high speed and weaving around slower traffic when a westbound motorist in a Nissan Rogue turned left in front of him, said police Traffic Sgt. Ben Shafer.

The rider is a Riverside teenager who was later listed in serious condition at Riverside Community Hospital, Shafter said. The motorist was unharmed.

Shafer estimated that the eastbound traffic lanes of University Avenue would be closed for a one-block stretch between Eucalyptus and Franklin Avenues until about 9 p.m.

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